How can the economic outlook appear so bleak, while economists remain upbeat? Not all recessions affect people equally.
messages.detailsPolicymakers should tackle the rising poverty and inequality, as well as the structural weaknesses exposed by the crisis to better prepare for future shocks.
messages.detailsBy broadening the nexus between economic interest and national security, Trump is encouraging the decoupling of the worlds two largest economies and the emergence of a bipolar world order led by rival hegemons.
messages.detailsWith interest rates at record lows and global growth set to continue decelerating, there has rarely been a better time for governments to invest in infrastructure and other sources of...
messages.detailsIf a universal basic income is used primarily to service debt and secure new loans, it cannot fulfill its promise as a revolutionary pathway to freedom from the whip of the market
messages.detailsThe valid insight behind "modern monetary theory" – that governments and central banks together can always create nominal demand
messages.details"Our people are our greatest asset."
messages.detailsPessimism afflicts those who have lost out economically
messages.detailsSome may view the US dollar’s appreciation as consistent with a longer-term rebalancing of the global economy. But, as Argentina’s recent request for IMF financing starkly demonstrates
messages.detailsEnvironmental, social and governance issues are now a major factor in investment
messages.detailsBut economists struggle to work out how much
messages.detailsIndividuals have the right and the freedom to own whatever they like of production means
messages.detailsBold plan by IFFEd to ensure that all of the world’s 1.6 billion boys and girls are in school and learning
messages.detailsSubsequent conversation sheds light on Shell’s complicity in one of the largest corruption scandals in Big Oil’s history
messages.detailsGDP has hardly grown in the last four years, and GDP per capita is still less than it was in 2007
messages.detailsAssuming that interest rates on the national debt eventually rise, taxes will need to go up, urgently on the wealthy but some day on the middle class
messages.detailsIslamic finance has important advantages over conventional financial products
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